Former West Virginia Mountaineer quarterback Clint Trickett is in the middle of a meteoric rise in the coaching ranks, and just landed his first job as a Division I FBS position coach, according to Chris Vannini of CoachingSearch.com. Trickett will be joining Lane Kiffin at Florida Atlantic, and will be serving as Kiffin’s tight ends coach.
Trickett started his coaching career shortly after graduating from West Virginia University when he accepted the quarterbacks coach role at East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, Mississippi. Trickett spent two seasons with the Lions and was featured on Netflix’s docuseries Last Chance U.